Before NFT Vaults is an owner-prepared curatorial provenance and technical-history research note reconstructing the development of Marquise $Museum and the Pimp Fashion art corpus from pre-NFT artwork and publication through the project's 2017–2020 fungible-token, redemption, authentication and dual-token experiments, followed by identifiable NFT migrations beginning in 2021.

The study separates artwork date, publication date, token date and NFT mint date, and evaluates the surviving record using a provenance-oriented evidence hierarchy encompassing blockchain records, patent documentation, archival sources, contemporaneous project records and third-party documentation.

Particular attention is given to the 2018 Swedish patent application SE 1800140 A1; the evolving M-I/M-II redemption and authentication architecture; its relationship to earlier tokenized-art systems; and the later functional comparison with NFT-vault protocols including NFTX.

The paper does not claim that Marquise $Museum invented NFTs, tokenized art, fractional art ownership or NFTX. It argues for a narrower historical classification: an early art-backed fungible-token redemption and persistent-authentication architecture that subsequently migrated portions of its pre-existing art corpus to NFTs.

Research Note v1.6 Issued 9 September 2026. Prepared as a research catalogue note; not a sale catalogue, investment memorandum or current valuation.

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